MM Times: Heritage preservation potential boost for tourism

admin06/03/2017

On March 1, Yangon Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein posted a clip on Facebook saying that the regional government is preserving around 200 heritage buildings in Yangon.

“We are preserving heritage buildings in Yangon numbering about 200 buildings … We also plan to preserve and renovate … the old Ministry of Hotels and Tourism Office building and the Secretariat without doing any damage to [their] heritage value. It [the project] would be supervised directly by the regional government,” the chief minister said. READ MORE